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How many types of fingerprinting are there in ethical hacking? (a) 5 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 2 I have been asked this question in exam. Question is taken from Fingerprinting topic in section Cyber Security of Cyber Security Select the correct answer from above options Cyber Security questions and answers, Cyber Security questions pdf, Cyber Security question bank, Cyber Security questions and answers pdf, mcq on Cyber Security pdf,

Answer 1

Correct answer is (d) 2 To elaborate: There are two types of fingerprinting in ethical hacking. These are active fingerprinting and passive fingerprinting. Active fingerprinting is gained if you send especially skilled packets to a target machine whereas passive fingerprinting is dependent on sniffer traces from the remote computer.